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One of the Chrome devs posted an IRC transcript of when an Iron dev dropped by... http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html http://neugier

One of the Chrome devs posted an IRC transcript of when an Iron dev dropped by... http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht... ...and it was less than flattering.

loewenskind 16y ago
He's naive perhaps, but otherwise I don't see much wrong with his message. You shouldn't trust google, they're a big cooperation.
- avar 16y ago
  What's wrong here is that he's refusing to work with a willing upstream. It would be much better for everyone if he submitted patches to Google to allow everyone using Chrome to optionally turn off these tracking features. Instead he's needlessly forking the project to "bring a lot of publicity to my person and my homepage". That's not being a good open source citizen.
  - loewenskind 16y ago
    He claims that in Germany he can make a lot of money at this. If he can then it means he's taking an open source project and doing something with it to make money. It doesn't even sound like he's closing the source of his fork (assuming he would even have this option). It's not the most efficient thing but if he really can make money with this I don't see much fault in it. It's risky because someone else could just push these changes back to Chrome killing his revenue stream.
    - avar 16y ago
      Sure, it's just that the whole thing has a big "Google's all about stealing your data" vibe in its advertisements. When in fact Google would be happy to take his patches, and most of those data-sharing features are improving the user experience (like type-ahead suggestions etc.). That just rubs me the wrong way.
- points 16y ago
  Right. You should trust the open source code which everyone has access to.
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ErrantX 16y ago
<Iron> the german people say: google is very evil <jamessan> yet you use google's adsense Ouch :)
woodall 16y ago
Here is one guys, early, take on Iron. Pretty much just comments stuff out. http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam

loewenskind 16y ago

He's naive perhaps, but otherwise I don't see much wrong with his message. You shouldn't trust google, they're a big cooperation.

avar 16y ago
What's wrong here is that he's refusing to work with a willing upstream. It would be much better for everyone if he submitted patches to Google to allow everyone using Chrome to optionally turn off these tracking features. Instead he's needlessly forking the project to "bring a lot of publicity to my person and my homepage". That's not being a good open source citizen.
- loewenskind 16y ago
  He claims that in Germany he can make a lot of money at this. If he can then it means he's taking an open source project and doing something with it to make money. It doesn't even sound like he's closing the source of his fork (assuming he would even have this option). It's not the most efficient thing but if he really can make money with this I don't see much fault in it. It's risky because someone else could just push these changes back to Chrome killing his revenue stream.
  - avar 16y ago
    Sure, it's just that the whole thing has a big "Google's all about stealing your data" vibe in its advertisements. When in fact Google would be happy to take his patches, and most of those data-sharing features are improving the user experience (like type-ahead suggestions etc.). That just rubs me the wrong way.
points 16y ago
Right. You should trust the open source code which everyone has access to.
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ErrantX 16y ago

<Iron> the german people say: google is very evil <jamessan> yet you use google's adsense Ouch :)

woodall 16y ago

Here is one guys, early, take on Iron. Pretty much just comments stuff out. http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam